To the Little Girl with the Big Mouth

By: Isabella Hurlbut

You sit in moms bed and yell for her to come and get you with a smile on your face / 

I guess you didn’t care about being scared to ask for what you wanted / 

You never even asked, i don’t think / you always screamed / 

With long blonde hair / always filled with knots / you had ocean eyes / and a hard mouth / 

But now everything about this older version of you has gone soft / 

I wonder if you would care / that this body is not as small as it used to be / 

I wonder if you would equate love to a pants size / or skipping meals / 

I don’t think you would /

You didn’t care about people loving you / 

You only cared about how much paint you could fit on your hands / 

Or oreos in your pockets / or flowers on your windowsill / 

You twirled and twirled and never thought twice about the skin you were in / 

“Body? What body?” you’d say /

“I am a bird today / and maybe tomorrow I will be the sun / 

I want to be biggest star, you see” / 

To the little girl with the big mouth / 

You were right all along / 

We were never meant to shrink /

We will always be the biggest star 

Isabella Hurlbut is a 22 year old creative and sunflower enthusiast from New Jersey. She recently graduated from the University of Maryland where she studied PR, but quickly developed a love for poetry and art instead. While she currently develops social media content for small businesses, in her spare time she is also working on publishing a second book of poetry and on the road to finding endless self love.